oh feathers..

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...While he was in combat in Europe, and without quite meaning to, Joe Medicine Crow performed the four necessary war deeds to become a war chief like his grandfather. First, he led a seven-man squad carrying explosives through a wall of artillery fire to blast German positions along the Siegfried Line. Then, while helping to take over a German-held village, he literally ran into a German soldier, knocking him down. He quickly disarmed the soldier, taking away his rifle Finally, in the last weeks of the war, he stole dozens of horses from a battalion of German officers. He is the last Crow Indian to become a war chief.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/309/story/73607.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Medicine_Crow
http://www.pbs.org/thewar/detail_5177.htm

Rudolf Steiner suggests that an eagle's feathers stream away from its body the way thoughts stream away from our human head. Given the relationship between feathers and thoughts, it is interesting that the first instrument of writing upon papyrus, parchment, and paper was a quill made from a large feather.”

“Feathers are given to the eagle; that is the physical aspect of the process in which thoughts are formed. The thoughts given to human beings are the astral aspect of the development of feathers.

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but...

"He is the last Crow Indian to become a war chief." :cry:


Remember this one for our children's children, and the stories and ways of honor will carry forward, from All the Ancestors...